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By the Associated Press
October 4, 2006
WINCHESTER, Va. -- A fire damaged three warehouses and wiped out much of a nationally known hat manufacturer's winter inventory.
Margie Pingley, warehouse distribution manager for the Mad Bomber, said Tuesday that the facility contained more than 50,000 bomber-style hats destined for L.L. Bean, Gander Mountain, Cabelas Inc., and other national retailers.
"We had most of our inventory for the season" inside the warehouse, she said.
Frederick County Assistant Fire Marshal Jeff Neal said the blaze, reported at 2:19 a.m. Monday, was started by a heating unit inside the Mad Bomber warehouse.
"Its either electrical, or something (combustible was) stored too close to the heater," Neal said."
The fire, which took four hours to extinguish, caused about $1 million in damages to the steel building and destroyed around $2 million worth of Mad Bomber's inventory, officials said.
Pingley said the burned hats comprised a large part of Mad Bomber's 111,000 items manufactured in China for the winter season. Several thousand hats already had been delivered to retailers, she said.
Along with the fur-lined hats, which retail for $30 to $100 each, Mad Bomber lost rolls of fabric that would have been sent to China for the creation of more hats.
Adjoining warehouses leased by two other companies also were damaged. B Safe Auto Glass had limited smoke and water damage, Neal said, while novelty and children's items in the J and L Distributors warehouse were ruined by smoke, water and flames.
Taken from DailyPress.com
October 4, 2006
WINCHESTER, Va. -- A fire damaged three warehouses and wiped out much of a nationally known hat manufacturer's winter inventory.
Margie Pingley, warehouse distribution manager for the Mad Bomber, said Tuesday that the facility contained more than 50,000 bomber-style hats destined for L.L. Bean, Gander Mountain, Cabelas Inc., and other national retailers.
"We had most of our inventory for the season" inside the warehouse, she said.
Frederick County Assistant Fire Marshal Jeff Neal said the blaze, reported at 2:19 a.m. Monday, was started by a heating unit inside the Mad Bomber warehouse.
"Its either electrical, or something (combustible was) stored too close to the heater," Neal said."
The fire, which took four hours to extinguish, caused about $1 million in damages to the steel building and destroyed around $2 million worth of Mad Bomber's inventory, officials said.
Pingley said the burned hats comprised a large part of Mad Bomber's 111,000 items manufactured in China for the winter season. Several thousand hats already had been delivered to retailers, she said.
Along with the fur-lined hats, which retail for $30 to $100 each, Mad Bomber lost rolls of fabric that would have been sent to China for the creation of more hats.
Adjoining warehouses leased by two other companies also were damaged. B Safe Auto Glass had limited smoke and water damage, Neal said, while novelty and children's items in the J and L Distributors warehouse were ruined by smoke, water and flames.
Taken from DailyPress.com
